Two of the largest stacks in the room faced off in a pot when the board read 
.
Joseph Cutler bet and Tim Faro called. The river was the 
.
Cutler bet 65,000 and this time Faro would not call as he quickly pitched his cards into the muck.
The money bubble has been reached with 25 players remaining and the floor has announced hand-for-hand play.
After being toward the top of the chip counts before dinner break Ronnie Thomas was seen exiting his table, eliminated before the money.
Ake Ngamsaard has had a large stack for the last few levels and is now at it's peak point as he was seen taking in a pot after a hand.
Ronnie Thomas and Kunal Shah were at the turn with the board reading 
.
Thomas bet 25,000 which was called by Shah. The river came the .
Thomas fired again, this time for a bet of 60,000. Shah called again.
Thomas sighed and turned over 
while Shah showed the winner 
to take more from Thomas's shrinking stack.
Action was picked up on the turn with a board that read 
, a huge pot of nearly 400,000 was in the middle and Ronnie Thomas had a big decision on his hands as Tim Faro moved all in.
Thomas's tournament life was at stake with the decision as Avruch was one of the few stacks in the room that had him covered.
After about two minutes of thinking, Thomas folded, electing to leave himself with his remaining 350,000.
Players are now on a 45 minute dinner break. Action will resume at level 17.
PokerNews is at the 2019 Potomac Poker Open (PPO) to offer live updates from three tournaments, but those are just a few of the 14 events playing out at MGM National Harbor.
Another was Event #4: $370 No-Limit Hold'em, a tournament that attracted 69 entries and generated a $20,700 prize pool. That was paid out to the final table with Chad Reynolds of Marinsburg, West Virginia coming out on top to win the title and accompanying $7,038 first-place prize.
It marked the fourth-largest score of Reynolds' career behind the $55,788 he won for finishing fifth in the 2014 Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #1: $550 NLH Deepstack, $19,142 for placing second in a 2014 WSOP Circuit $365 NLH event at Harrah's Cherokee, and $10,900 for a fifth-place finish in the 2014 Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #15: $1,090 NLH 6-Max.
2019 PPO Event #4 Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Chad Reynolds | Marinsburg, WV | $7,038 |
| 2nd | Michael Robinson | Woodbridge, VA | $4,347 |
| 3rd | Johnathan Moschel | Owins Mills, MD | $2,898 |
| 4th | Han Oh | Catonis, MD | $1,863 |
| 5th | Scott Carpenter | Arlington, VA | $1,449 |
| 6th | Anthony Holbert | Sterling, VA | $1,242 |
| 7th | Jose Espinora | Alexandria, VA | $1,035 |
| 8th | Robert Gailer | Washington DC | $828 |
The chips got all in the middle on the turn as the board read 
. Tim Faro held the 
while Frederick Hoban had 
. The river was the 
and Avruch took in all of Hoban's chips.
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